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NAISBURY, a place in the E of Durham; 3 ¼ miles W of Hartlepool.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

MURTON-JUNCTION, a railway station in Durhamshire; at the junction of the Hartlepool and Sunderland and the Durham and Sunderland railways, in East Morton township, 8 miles ENE of Durham.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

SHERBURN HOSPITAL, an extra-parochial in the district and county of Durham; on the Northeastern railway, 3 miles ESE of Durham. Acres, 730. Real property, £975. Pop. in 1851, 34; in 1861, 186. Houses, 26. A magnificent lepers’ hospital was founded here in 1181, by Bishop Pudsey; was mainly destroyed in 1300, by the Scots; was re-constructed in 1429, as alms-houses, by Bishop Langley; was rebuilt in 1759, and enlarged in 1819; retains the Norman chapel and the doorway of the Norman tower of the original edifice; and serves, for a master, 21 resident almsmen, and 9 out-pensioners.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

SHERBURN, a township, with a village, in Pittington parish, Durhamshire; on the Northeastern and the Durham and Sunderland railways, 2 ¾ miles E of Durham. It has stations on the railways, and a post-office under Durham. Acres, 1,303. Real property, £17,331; of which £13,850 are in mines, and £164 in railways. Pop., 2,380. Houses, 482. Coal is extensively worked. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a reading-room, and national schools.   See sherburn hospital.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

SHERATON, a township in Monk-Hesleton parish, Durham; 11 miles N of Stockton-on-Tees. Real property, £1,226. Pop., 139. Houses, 29.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].